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2009-10 Endowed Lectures
All Endowed Lectures are free and open to the public
Tuesday, November 10, 8:00pm
The Jewish Community Endowment Lecture Fund
Michael Chabon , Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist
In Conversation on Notions of Home with John Felstiner, Professor of English, Stanford University
Hewlett Building - Room 200
Co-sponsored with American Studies and the Program in Creative Writing
Thursday, November 19, 8:00 pm
THE AARON-ROLAND LECTURE IN JEWISH STUDIES
Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
At the Treshold of Forgiveness: On Law and Narrative in the Talmud
Levinthal Hall - Humanities Center
Co-sponsored by the Lobel Fund and the Stanford Humanities Center
THE CLARA SUMPF YIDDISH LECTURE SERIES
Naomi Seidman, Professor of Jewish Culture, Graduate Thelogical Union
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:00 pm
The Rise of the Jewish Novel and the Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz (English)
Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:00 noon
The Yiddish Gospel of Matthew [Di bsure toyve loyt Matyel] (Yiddish)
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Recent Endowment Fund lecturers have included Leon Wieseltier, Raul Hilberg, Robert Alter, Jonathan Frankel, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Meir Shalev, A.B Yehoshua, Elisheva Carlebach, Ruth R. Wise, David Berger, Isaiah Gafni, Anita Shapira, Kathryn Hellerstein and Derek Penslar.